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' M. A. BANGROPT.

J PRINTING. No. 355,118. Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

' the frisket bei ng removed. Fig. 3 is a plan UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

MAJOR BANOROFT, OF BLUN'I, DAKOTA TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOISRAEL E. YOUNGBLOOD, OF SAME PLACE.

PRINTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,118, dated December 28. 1836- Application filed December 17,1885. Serial No. 185,940.(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAJOR A. BANOROFT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Blunt, in the county of Hughes and Territory of Dakota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being bad therein to theaccompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in the art of printing, wherebythe printer is enabled, without breaking the form or mutilating anyportion of the type or rules therein, to print just such parts of it ashe may desire, leaving the remaining parts blank, to be by subsequentimpressions printed from the parts of the form from which no impressionhas been taken, or from another form.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to use my invention, I willproceed to describe it, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a form of movable type and afrisket, the latter being so cut as to permit certain portions of theform to be printed. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of a tympan-sheet,those parts of the sheet which underlie the-uncut parts of .on thefrisket and cut out those portions of the frisket which overlie theparts of the form which I wish to print, as shown at b. After havingprepared the frisket in this manner, I cut out, as at 0, those parts ofthe tympansheet 0 which underlie the uncut parts of thefrisket oppositethe type, in order to avoid I unduly pressing the unprinted parts of thecard or paper.

On referring to Fig.1 it will be seen that by this method portions of anunbroken form can be printed by arranging the frisket and tympan in themanner set forth; also, as shown In Figs. 3 and 4, a cut may be soprinted as to leave blank spaces on its face, which may be afterwardfilled by an impression from another form.

It will be apparent that a sin 1e impression presenting an outlinedifferent from that of the form and having a finished appearance, can betaken by simply arranging the frisket and tympan in accordancewith thedesign of the impression to be produced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent. is-

1. The combination, with a form of type placed on the bed of aprinting-press, of a frisket, the portions which overlie the part of theform from which it is desired to take an impression being cut out, and atympan having the portions which underlie the part of the frisketcovering the part of the form not to be printed from out out,substantially as described.

2. As an improvement in the art of printing, the method hereindescribed, consisting in cutting out those parts of the frisket whichoverlie those parts of the form from which an impression is to be takenand removing those parts of the tympan-sheet which underlie the part ofthe frisket coverlng the part of the form not to be printed from, thenapplying paper to the frisket and tympan s0 prepared and taking theimpression, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MAJOR A. BANGROFT. Witnesses:

I. E. YOUNGBLOOD, F ED O. KIMBALL.

